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The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway (reporting mark CCKY) is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia, USA.The railroad operated 22 miles (35 km) of the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (a.k.a. the TAG route) from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Kensington, Georgia, which reverted to the Norfolk Southern System and was partially removed after the Dow Reichhold ...
1917 map of the railroad. The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad was created through a reorganization of the Chattanooga Southern Railway in 1911. A few years later, in 1922, the line's name was changed to the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (reporting mark TAG) and was also known as the TAG Route.
Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet (94 m). The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. 1879/1880. It was replaced by a vertical lift span in 1917, but the lift towers and machinery were not installed until 1920.
The city wanted to provide a thoroughfare to St. Elmo and Lookout Mountain, but Broad Street ended abruptly at Ninth Street (now Martin Luther King Boulevard), [4] terminating at a railroad station owned by the State of Georgia. Negotiations to open a passageway for a road through the south side had failed over the years.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a railway company that operated in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.It began as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, chartered in Nashville on December 11, 1845, built to 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [2] and was the first railway to operate in the state of Tennessee. [3]
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad: Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad: CG: 1887 1891 Savannah and Western Railroad: Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad: CG: 1897 1901 Central of Georgia Railway: Chattanooga Southern Railroad: SOU: 1896 1911 Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad: Chattanooga Southern Railway: SOU: 1894 1895 ...
Chattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown & Charleston Railroad Tunnel: 1863 1978-08-24 Chattanooga Hamilton: Conway Bridge: 1925 2009-11-20 ... Southern Railroad Bridge: 1900
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (reporting mark TVRM) [1] is a railroad museum and heritage railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee.. The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H. Merriman and Robert M. Soule, Jr., along with a group of local railway preservationists.